I'm guessing it greatly depends on where you live. I live near Santos, a major seaport. So maybe I'm not paying what some of you are paying for "destination charges."
I'm guessing it greatly depends on where you live. I live near Santos, a major seaport. So maybe I'm not paying what some of you are paying for "destination charges."
I sure would, what a adventure in buracracy/lol. So far things have been good I have now permanent residency it took about 4 months the only thing left fo do is pick up my CPF and exchange my license for the one required in Brasil, that's all we need is another 61 year old driver on the roads/lol.
I would have bought the initial 10 pieces of luggage authorized by some airlines and my fricking Cast Iron pans, and all the delicacies that I didn't know I would miss, like syrup and pancake mix, elbow macaroni,velveta cheese, cake mixes, peanut butter and jam and loads of candy,a quality tool set, toilet paper holders, lots of Bug spray, all types of spices and anything you may think you will miss or once one becomes permanent in Brasil ship everything you could possibly think you will need even a flipping heating pad (lol). I find the prices here in the Northeast reasonable on food as for a Senior Citizen living on a pension my needs are met and the exchange rate is okay, just get tired of the exchange fees. I was fortunate to be able to travel back to the USA to in April due to the death of my mother so it was not a happy trip yet necessary, I had a lot of free time so we know what that means "Shop till you Drop"/smh/lol. So all of the items mentioned above incuding a small barbecue grill and anything I could think of I would I would need from pancake mix to steak sauce as well as Hot Wing Sauce/lol, I picked up the only thing I think I forgot for now was a couple of boxes of Grits (lol). I spent about R $4,600-USD $1,700. And trust me it was worth the extra baggage fee for I checked 8 bags, I should have went for the 10 allowed (lol) I also packed a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts in my carry on by the time I got home to Belem they were less than 24 hours old (lol). Walmart and the Dollar Store fell in love with me (lol). I will traveling back June of 2018 with the wife and plan to bring back 20 pieces of luggage and we love our heating pad and Waffle iron. Oh I forgot to mention the frosting for the cakes and the caramel dip for the apples, bisquik, Jiffy cornbread mix and Blueberry muffin mix(lol). So if your thinking about moving to Brasil I recommend One Bring Everything One Can Think of, and yes this is a Rant (lol)
Alascana, you can make your own peanut butter. You just need some sugar, a little salt, peanut oil, and peanuts.
Don't forget Jimmy Dean sausage, and chorizo and ranch dressing. I found and bought a good waffle iron here.
I buy peanut butter here, they sell Jiffy at most emporiums.
I too am retired in Living in the NE of Brazil and I know what it is to miss and not have some of those things one cannot get here in Brazil. I'm going home in June for 3 weeks and my wife and I make a list of essentials for purchase when we return. We do limit what we will buy and the space it will take. Specifically we limit the return baggage to Brazil to just 4. I've heard in the news this past week that one of the 3 major airlines have increased their check-in baggage (over 2 each) to $300.00 and I suspect the others will follow...........greedy bastards! I might suggest that you look at finding local sources like Natal, Brazil or other major cities closer to Belem. These cities have Sam's Clubs and they carry US brand cake mixes, maple syrup, and ketchup and many other items. A lot cheaper than flying all the way to the States for a "shopping Run." Why did you pick Belem to retire too?
$9US for 470 (+/-) grams. Make your own. It's healthier and much cheaper.
Do you live near there? Would you be willing to do runs and ship them to me near Santos?
R$19 for no need to stir skippy natural with honey 425 grams. I have Peter Pan too, I think it was R$24 for 728 grams. Shipping anything in this country is a pain in the rear. I would need to mark up the cost a little bit for my suffering, 😂
It might be a better idea to visit Goiania and buy your own. I'm sure São Paulo has it too...
I live in Praia de Pipa and we make 2 to 4 trips per month to Natal and when I am doing real estate photos it generally is more often.
CraigF wrote:R$19 for no need to stir skippy natural with honey 425 grams. I have Peter Pan too, I think it was R$24 for 728 grams. Shipping anything in this country is a pain in the rear. I would need to mark up the cost a little bit for my suffering, 😂
It might be a better idea to visit Goiania and buy your own. I'm sure São Paulo has it too...
I've seen Skippy at Hiper Extra and sometimes at Carrefour for R$27 ($9US) for 425 grams. I saw Peter Pan at Pão de Açucar, same size, for R$30.
Yes, I know that the correios makes them much harder than they really have to be and more expensive than they should be. MY main concern really is maple syrup, good sharp cheddar cheese, and Velveeta. Ranch dressing would be cool as well, but my mom doesn't always charge me to send me a large handful of packets and another large handful of cherry kool-aid packets.
My (now) wife and I are working on updating all of her documentation, to include the new passport with her married name and then get all my residency documentation. The thinking is that my having permanent residence here will convince the visa interviewer that we don't want to stay in the US, which we don't, and grant her the tourist visa. Next year, when I don't have a friend dying of cancer, we'll work on her "K" visa.
Her son has just been given the chance to act as the sole salesperson for some big shot here in town that owns a sizeable plot of land to sell the parcels. He says he wants to give us one of them and we're hoping that between him and the lawyer, they can work up the paperwork showing that we own land here, which should also help with her visa application.
Whether her application is approved or not, I have to go back to the US no later than the end of July/very beginning of August because we bought tickets last year when we started trying to get her visa and had to put them on hold. Our year expires sometime in August. I've got a childhood friend that used to be a senior flight attendant for American Airlines that is dying of cancer. She says her doctors have given her mere months to live and I have to visit with her before that happens. She used to bring me goodies my mom sent.
Mike in São Paulo wrote:Alascana, you can make your own peanut butter. You just need some sugar, a little salt, peanut oil, and peanuts.
Don't forget Jimmy Dean sausage, and chorizo and ranch dressing. I found and bought a good waffle iron here.
It's not like the store bought stuff/lol, and how does one bring meat products into Brasil? I did bring the Ranch Dressing, French's Fried Onions, Lipton Onion for Dipping the Ruffles you can buy in Brasil usally there all smashed up from handling I also bought back Beer Batter and Fish Fry. I got the Waffle Iron for $14.00 USD made in China/lmao
CraigF wrote:I buy peanut butter here, they sell Jiffy at most emporiums.
I like Peter Pan and Skippy/lmao
Alascana wrote:Mike in São Paulo wrote:Alascana, you can make your own peanut butter. You just need some sugar, a little salt, peanut oil, and peanuts.
Don't forget Jimmy Dean sausage, and chorizo and ranch dressing. I found and bought a good waffle iron here.
It's not like the store bought stuff/lol, and how does one bring meat products into Brasil? I did bring the Ranch Dressing, French's Fried Onions, Lipton Onion for Dipping the Ruffles you can buy in Brasil usally there all smashed up from handling I also bought back Beer Batter and Fish Fry. I got the Waffle Iron for $14.00 USD made in China/lmao
I'm not actually sure about meat products. I kinda doubt I'll be able to bring them in even if I can figure out a way to legally keep them frozen during the flight. If my wife's visa is approved, we're going to be bringing kilos of ranch dressing mix. She also wants to bring two big blocks of Velveeta and two big bottles of maple syrup. I found Knorr creme de cebola mix to be almost as good as Lipton's, so I use it. It would be great if the creme de leite here had the same taste as our IMO or Knudsen sour cream, so I could use it on tacos and burritos (handmade tortillas!).
Gotcha184 wrote:I too am retired in Living in the NE of Brazil and I know what it is to miss and not have some of those things one cannot get here in Brazil. I'm going home in June for 3 weeks and my wife and I make a list of essentials for purchase when we return. We do limit what we will buy and the space it will take. Specifically we limit the return baggage to Brazil to just 4. I've heard in the news this past week that one of the 3 major airlines have increased their check-in baggage (over 2 each) to $300.00 and I suspect the others will follow...........greedy bastards! I might suggest that you look at finding local sources like Natal, Brazil or other major cities closer to Belem. These cities have Sam's Clubs and they carry US brand cake mixes, maple syrup, and ketchup and many other items. A lot cheaper than flying all the way to the States for a "shopping Run." Why did you pick Belem to retire too?
I'm taking the wife home to meet the family in June so I might as well shop I still need those Cast Iron Skillets (lol), I chose the airlines with the most allowable bags and my rate was $75.00 per bag USD, I traveled home for my mom's funeral. The danger is high enough in Belem don't wish to be a statistic in Natal(lol) I was at Sam's Club in the states aka Walmart (lol). I am able to fly to the states just because it's there (lol) and as I said it was to handle my mom's estate. I choose the Northeast for simplicity and my wife wasn't moving anywhere (lol) I choose Belem for the future and now wife,the wife has a home here, and it's the 27th deadliest city in the world (you gotta love that/lol) it's a port city lots of action if you know port cities in Brasil (lol). Main reason a fixed income goes a long way in Belem. Does Sam's Club have heating pads and toilet paper holders??. Hope that solved the mystery of why I do what I does.
Mike in São Paulo wrote:Alascana wrote:Mike in São Paulo wrote:Alascana, you can make your own peanut butter. You just need some sugar, a little salt, peanut oil, and peanuts.
Don't forget Jimmy Dean sausage, and chorizo and ranch dressing. I found and bought a good waffle iron here.
It's not like the store bought stuff/lol, and how does one bring meat products into Brasil? I did bring the Ranch Dressing, French's Fried Onions, Lipton Onion for Dipping the Ruffles you can buy in Brasil usally there all smashed up from handling I also bought back Beer Batter and Fish Fry. I got the Waffle Iron for $14.00 USD made in China/lmao
I'm not actually sure about meat products. I kinda doubt I'll be able to bring them in even if I can figure out a way to legally keep them frozen during the flight. If my wife's visa is approved, we're going to be bringing kilos of ranch dressing mix. She also wants to bring two big blocks of Velveeta and two big bottles of maple syrup. I found Knorr creme de cebola mix to be almost as good as Lipton's, so I use it. It would be great if the creme de leite here had the same taste as our IMO or Knudsen sour cream, so I could use it on tacos and burritos (handmade tortillas!).
No meats allowed as far as I know, you can check the web for Prohibited items either the Brasil or US ,
I followed the guidelines of both, I should have bought my limit of cigarettes (lol). Everything I bought back was factory sealed/ packaged/ the Velveeta made it (lol) I bought a lot of plastic bottle foodstuffs, like dressings and differant sauces and mustards and large ceremic and glass coffee cups the coffee cups here are ridiculously small (lol) the TSA did take my large lighters for starting the barbeque grill. I'd recommend 6 Velveeta, 6 Maple Syrups and put a piece of scotch tape over any bottles that have pourable caps for the pressure in the cargo hole will blow them off (lol) I did get Yeast to make Biscuits and Pizza Dough proper, hey do you know where I can get some real Pepperoni (lol) take care and get your Shop on while in the US. As long as the item is Factory Sealed it's no problem. When I left Alaska I had to give away over a 100 pounds of Red Salmon stupid No Seafood Allowed Regulations (lol. I think if you check the spice section you may find a dry sausage mix for Jimmy Deans or check on YouTube I'm sure someone has a video on how to make the sausage and you'll just need the local brazilian butcher to grind it for you.
I've got a food processor I can use to grind the meat. I've found several sausage recipes, but they're all missing "something" to make them as good as Jimmy Dean or any of the others.
I'd love to be able to go to my favorite sandwich shop and buy 2 big packages of their pastrami to bring back. One of these days, I'm going to try my hand at making corned beef.
I found that no matter what brand of cigarette I was smoking, they were cheaper her than back in the US. Now I smoke roll my own Hollywood because we're trying to quit and it's cheaper that way.
I'll be saving space on the sauces and such by just bringing the powdered mixes.
I'm allergic to coffee, so I don't worry about the size of coffee cups.
I saw real pepperoni at the Mercadão Municipal do São Paulo. There's a specialty import store in São Paulo, but I never looked for it there. I'd love to take a trip there to get some stuff, but my main client just told me their client has stopped paying their bills and I have to sit idle until they get it worked out (I've been idle with him for 4 weeks now and it sucks.). I have yet to be successful in finding a client that will pay me so much for so little work and we're just keeping our heads above water right now. My client tells me they should have things worked out soon, but I'm afraid I'm going to miss my window to visit my parents and dying friend because of a lack of funds.
As for yeast, buy the small individual "serving/usage" packages of fermento activo. That's what I use for my pizza dough. Prep it by heating a cup of water to about 100 F and dumping 1/4 of sugar in for 15 minutes until it starts to foam. Then add your flour, olive oil, and salt and mix. Let it sit in a covered bowl for an hour and you've got excellent pizza dough everyone will love.
Man. That sucks! 100 pounds of red salmon? Dammit Jim!